Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 21 hours ago

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This video, starring Adrian Mouat, Staff DevRel Engineer at Chainguard, and Erin Glass, Senior Product Manager at Chainguard, discusses false negatives in scanners, including what they are and how they can cause issues when implementing vulnerability management practices.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:28 What is a false negative
01:11 What's wrong with false negatives
01:40 Why do false negatives happen
02:22 How scanners work
03:39 How to reduce risk from false negatives
04:41 Outro

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